June 2013 With the recent reduction in piracy off the coast of Somalia, attention is now being drawn to the other side of the continent. Piracy is beginning the plague the entire Gulf of Guinea, but Nigeria is where most of the pirate attacks seem to occur. A recent report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) […]
IMO welcomes adoption of piracy code
June 2013 Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) recently shared his praise for the 22 states that signed the Code of Conduct aimed at preventing piracy of merchant vessels. The Code of Conduct was signed at a conference in Yaounde, Cameroon on June 25th. 13 heads of state from West and Central African countries were […]
ISO 28007: West African Problems
January 2013 Last month, the International Standards Organization released “ISO 28007”, a new standard of certification for private maritime security contractors who provide on-board security for merchant ships. Some of the logistics, including who exactly the audit inspectors for this certification will be, remain unclear. However, this provides a new and exciting method of certification […]
West African Piracy Surpasses East African Piracy
June 2013 Piracy in West Africa has been on the rise for several years, and has now eclipsed East African piracy in number of incidents this past year, according to the International Maritime Bureau. The bureau counts 966 attacks in favor of pirates dominating the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa, and 851 for Somali pirates […]
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